Hello.
I've run into an odd issue. I recently started using Pd vanilla (0.47-1 on OSX El Capitan) instead of Pd-extended.

I've found that if I open the 'audio settings' window found under the 'media' tab, I can't for the life of me close it again, no matter what I do.

At first I thought it was because I changed the settings to something PD wouldn't accept, but I've found that I just have to open the window, even if I don't do anything, I still can't close it. The window itself is not frozen, it's just unresponsive. Pressing 'x' in the window does nothing, pressing 'cancel' or 'ok' does nothing.

When the window is open I can't do anything on the open patch. I can navigate the menus and turn dsp on and off in the console, but pressing anything in the menus does nothing. I've tried to set the console to show all messages, but there is nothing to show, no useful error messages or anything alike.

The only thing I can do is force quit the application and open it again.

It isn't connected to any audio interface at this point, just the Macbook's built-in outputs. I haven't had it set up to any external interface since I made the jump to vanilla.

Has anyone run into this before?
Thank you in advance.

M

@Hasselbalch Your audio settings are bad........ and Pd is "semi-hung".
Open this....... fix.pd ......... which should return you to a basic normal setup from which you can try again to set the settings that you want..
David.

That did the trick. Does it just revert the settings back to 'factory' settings? I never changed the values in the window since I never could. So the settings it reverts back to is what it already was set to. Either ways, thank you very, very much.

M

@Hasselbalch It is maybe not "factory settings" but it is settings that should work with any system.
I would think that something must be different from your previous settings, but maybe not.
Once Pd is "confused", because it's settings do not match the system, the problem stops you setting something better...... hence my fix. Maybe the audio settings window is then not reliable (not showing it's actual state)?
Very pleased that it helped!
David.